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You Can't Make This Up - Mark Halperin on the Presidential Race in Time Magazine

Link for This Post: You Can't Make This Up -- Time Magazine Saturday May 3, 2008 by Mark Halperin The last couple of months of the long grueling polical race has gotten me a bit down. This short little piece...

LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann Leaves Lasting Albeit Controversial Legacy - CBC Sunday News Online Video

Links for this Post: Psychedelic Pioneer Albert Hofmann Video on Canadian Broadcasting Company Sunday News Watch Video with Windows Media (click here) I taped a short statement here in Vegas whch was included as part of a collage of people...

Rest in Peace Old Friend -- Albert Hofmann the Father of LSD Dies at 102

Links for this Post: Albert Hofmann Dies at 102 New York Tmes I had some dental work done today and my dentist does not believe much in giving pain killers. Usually I concur but tonight I wish he had give...

The Search for A Female Aphrodesiac Continues

Link for this Post: The hunt for '"pink" Viagra -- in the St. Peters Times. Sigmund Freud once said, The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty...

Obama Favored 10% over Hillary Nationally -- Bush Breaks Record Highest Negative Ever -- Gallup Polls

Links for this Post: Disapproval Of Bush Breaks Record -- USA Today Obama Maintains National Lead -- Gallup Daily Two stories about the ratings of three polticians in the Gallup Poll caught my eye today. The stories might seem somewhat...

The Dream Machine Online

Link for this Post: The Dream Machine Online Note; Be sure to close your eyes when you view the dream machine. Three years ago, I wrote Remembering Brion Gysin Among Gysin's works was the concept of the Dream Machine. The...

Millennials: Tipping the Scales Toward Change on Future Blogger

Link for this post:Millennials: Tipping the Scales Toward Change on Future Blogger. I have been hearing about the new Millennial Generation but did not know that much about it until I found this post on a weblog called FutureBlogger. Complete...

The Longevity Meme -- Ideas and Actions for Longer, Healthier Lives

Link:for this Post The Longevity Meme -- Ideas and Actions for Longer, Healthier Lives. Having just headed into a decade of my life, the idea of slowing the aging process becomes increasingly more interesting. Here is a log with a...

World Psychedelic Forum Videos on YouTube

Links for this post: Series of World Psychedelic Forum Videos on YouTube As I mentioned, I wanted to go to the World Psychedelic Forum in Basel but I guess two visits to Basel in one lifetime is probably enough. The...

Remembering Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy

Links for this Post: In the text My memory of what I was doing on the day Martin Luther King was murdered forty years ago today is vivid. I was going to college at California State University Northridge, back then...

The Hivemind Aesthetic, Instopix and Other Art

Links for this Post The Hivemind Aesthetic. Luke Stanley on Stumble Upon Luke Stanley's Blog Instapix I stumbled upon a young fellow from England a couple of years ago, who is working on a semantically sensitive software program that adds...

Now is the Time for Al Gore!

Links for this Post: Could Gore Be The Nominee? By Taegan Goddard in Political Insider DraftGore.Com: Over 200,000 people have signed a this petition If you are an Obama supporter like me, these days are not the best of times....

Rush Limbaugh urges listeners to vote for Clinton

Rush Limbaugh urges listeners to vote for Clinton CNN Poltical Ticker "I want Hillary to stay in this…this is too good a soap opera," Limbaugh told fellow conservative talk-show host Laura Ingraham on Fox News Friday. He reiterated the comments...

The Grand Old White Party Confronts Obama - New York Times

Link for this post: The Grand Old White Party Confronts Obama - by Frank Rich in the New York Times. This op-ed in today's New York Times draws some amusing caricatures of the two white candidates left in this year's...

Bill Clinton: Obama 'Literally Not Part of Any of the Good Things' From the 1990s - Jake Tapper ABC News

Link for This Post: Bill Clinton: Obama 'Literally Not Part of Any of the Good Things' From the 1990s by Jake Tapper ABC News Senior National Correspondent. It looks like Bill Clinton is back on Barack Obama's case. Tapper reports:...

New York Times Reports Advisers Ready To Take "Potentially Incendiary Steps To Build Up Mrs. Clinton’s Count"

Links for This Post: Obama’s Lead in Delegates Shifts Focus of Campaign By Adam Nagourney - New York Times Out for Themselves by Ezra Klein - American Prospect Ezra Klein pulled this quote from today's New York Times article: With...

McCain's Hundred Years War -- YouTube Music Video

Links for this post: embedded video and blog link credit below While the two remaining Democrats continue to debate issues such as their record of opposing the Iraq War, Health Care, leadership, experience and changing the course of the nation,...

We Want an End to this War: Barak Obama SuperBowl Ad Video

Barak Obama SuperBowl Ad embeded below As I watch the early returns roll in, I found this ad spot that Obama's camapign ran in local markets duriing last Sunday's Superbowl.

Yes We Can Barack Obama Music Video on YouTube

Link for the Post: YouTube Video embedded below My friend Will Penna sent me this Youtube Video by email.. I was surprised to get it from him since he was for Hillary last week. He says with the email: I...

Caroline and Teddy Kennedy Endorse Barak Obama on YouTube

I watched this live today on CNN and it found it inspirational. I hope you enjoy it If you are planning to Vote for Hillary -- Think Again!

A President Like My Father By Caroline Kennedy -- New York Times

Link for this Post: A President Like My Father By Caroline Kennedy -- New York Times Caroline Kennedy's op-ed in the Sunday New York Times is heartfultly stated. She says: OVER the years, I’ve been deeply moved by the people...

Sixties Philosopher Alan Watts Talks About Aldous Huxley's Island -- Pacifica Radio Audio

Links for this Post: These links are playlist files which when either opened with a streaming audio player like the free Winamp or clicked on if a playlist file player is already configured in windows. Each of them are KPFK...

Psychedelic Healing in by David Jay Brown in Scientific Amareican

Link for this Post: Click and download this PDF file Psychedelic healing?- Scientific American Mind This Scientific American Mind Edition article on new scientific research on psychedelic compounds by my old

A Workshop on Writing in San Fransisco

Links for this Post: Stanley Krippner

The case against Hillary Clinton. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

Link for this Post: The case against Hillary Clinton. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine The tile of the article "The Case Against Hillary Clinton Why on earth would we choose to put the Clinton family drama at the...

Mystic Garden Party 2008 Jan 25-26 Maui, HI Includes 3 Days of Workshop and Music

Featured Links for his Post Mystic Garden Party 2008 Buy Mystic Garden Passes for various lengths and level of participation

Awakening the Divine Within -- Enthogen TV on YouTube

Link for this Post: Awakening the Divine Within -- embedded YouTube video below Here is the YouTube description of this video: Terence McKenna, Alex Grey, and Stanislov Grof are among the people that speak here in this inspiring piece put...

Obama up by 13 points in New Hampshire Primary According to Just Released USA Gallup Poll

Link for this Post; Obama up by 13 points, McCain up by 4 in USAT/Gallup Poll in N.H. USA Today By: Mark Memmott and Jill Lawrence Here is an excerpt from the report from USA today Sen. Barack Obama has...

Obama: A Man Who Will Restore America’s Image in the World - in The Moderate Voice

Link for this Post: Obama: A Man Who Will Restore America’s Image in the World i by William Kern in the Moderate Voice Obama: 'A Man Who Will Restore America's Image in the World' full article referred to by first...

Futures Market and Book Makers Both see Barak Obama Win in New Hampshire

Link for this Post: Futures markets see McCain, Obama wins If the futures markets are as good a predictors of events in New Hampshire as they were in Iowa, the winners of he New Hampshire will be Barak Obama on...

Huffington Post - Barack Obama, RFK, and Blackwater

Link for this Post: Joseph A. Palermo: Barack Obama, RFK, and Blackwater - Politics on The Huffington Post. Here is an excerpt from Joeseph A. Palermo's article: Forty years ago, in 1968, when Robert F. Kennedy started his campaign for...

Iowa Caucuses 2008 Betting Odds BARACK OBAMA -180!

Link for this Post: Iowa Caucuses 2008 Betting Odds BARACK OBAMA -180!. If the oddsmakers are right, Barak Obama will win the Iowa Caucus tonight. According to this story: Prediction markets for elections have proven quite accurate in recent years...

The Six Wives of Timothy Leary

Links for this Post: The Six Wives of Timothy Leary reviewed in The Stage The Six Wives of Timothy Leary - reviewed by John Higgs MySpace profile of The Six Wives of Timothy Leary Here is an interesting take on...

The Trips Festival Film Provides a Time Tunnel into the Sixites

Links for this Post Listen to Panel Discussion on the Trips Festival MP3 Download (this comes via KPFA's Dead To The World Radio Program broadcast Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 which also streams on the KPFA website) Trips Festival Movie Website...

Ramon Sender and Memories of the Sixties

Links for this Post: Ramon Sender Homepage Home Free Home: A History of Two Open-Door California Communes: I first met Ramon Sender in 1969 at a hippie commune called Wheeler's Ranch in Northern California. Wheeler's Ranch was one of two...

Return of the Light

Happy Solstice. Today in the Northern Hemisphere where I live, it is the shortest day of the year in terms of sunflight and in the Southern Hemisphere it is their longest day. In this way, the Solstice marks a day...

I Upgraded to Englightenment 2.0 -- Beyond Belief

Link for this Post: Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 It looks like some people are thinking the same thoughts I am. The above link is to a conference focusing on the recent trends in our society away from science and reason...

The World Has Lost One of Its Greats -- Laura Archera Huxley 1911-2007 Updated

Links for this Post: Update: I just received an email from Karen Pfeiffer, the president of Laura's Children: Our Ultimate Investment. She sent an obituary which you will find in the extended portion of this post after what I had...

The Current Global Crisis and the Future of Humanity Stan Grof on Reality Sandwitch

Link for this Post: The Current Global Crisis and the Future of Humanity by Stan Grof on Reality Sandwich The essay I am posting about is by Dr. Stanislav Grof, who needs no introduction to most readers. The subject of...

Stacy Parker Aab: Obama, Clinton and the "Vision Thing" - Politics on The Huffington Post

Link: Stacy Parker Aab: Obama, Clinton and the "Vision Thing" - Politics on The Huffington Post. Regular readers of Vision Thing know that I'm a big fan of Barak Obama. For months now, people such as myself have been trying...

COSMOS Magazine Inside the Mind Issue

Link for this Post: COSMOS Magazine Inside the Mind Issue. Those of you who read this blog know that besides blogging, I am finishing my psychology doctorate. I've always been interested in all things to do with the mind and...

Surfer Stuns Physicists With Theory Of Everything - Telegraph UK and YouTube Video

Link for this Post: See YouTube Video Embedded Below Surfer Dude Stuns Physicists With Theory Of Everything -- Telegraph UK by By Roger Highfield, Science Editor An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything on Blogger: Useful links regarding Garrett Lisi's 'An...

Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

Link for this Post Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines. I just found this publication and like their slant on the news. truthdig includes these sections: Digs, Reports, Interviews, Arts & Culture, Uncovered, Ear to the Ground, A/V Booth, Cartoons, Bazaar,...

Space Squid: Earth's Worst Sci-Fi And Humor 'Zine

Links for this Post: Space Squid: Earth's Worst Sci-Fi And Humor 'Zine Space Squid's Squidcast Squids have become a popular archetype of the web recently, with Squidoo and now with Space Squid. I suppose I'm a sucker for a fun...

You Need to get Irrelgion

Link for this Post: Irreelgion.Org "Your Last Stop Before Eternal Enlightenment" Ever since the fundamentalist movement which hit the planet sometime in the Seventies, the acts and ideas of fundamentalists of various religions and creeds have become increasingly absurd Now...

Got Wis.dm? New Online Community Has All the Answers

Link for this Post: Visit Wis.dm through this link! Wis.dm is the latest online community -- an interesting mashup of Yahoo! Answers, MySpace and Digg. Community members become resident experts to answer the steady onslaught of questions from new members/seekers....

Build A Hacked Macintosh Running Leopard from Off-The-Shelf Parts for Under $800

Link this Post: Hack Attack: Build a Hackintosh Mac for Under $800. File this in the 'it finally had to happen" category but someone managed to build a "Macintosh" or ""Hackintosh"" as Adam Pash is a senior editor for Lifehacker...